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From: "pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" <pelzflorian@pelzflorian.de>
To: Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr>
Cc: Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <GNUtoo@cyberdimension.org>,
	 Adrien 'neox' Bourmault <neox@gnu.org>,
	 help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Guix as a non-optional dependency in another project, and Guix resources requirements.
Date: Tue, 09 Apr 2024 11:33:15 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87a5m26ftw.fsf@pelzflorian.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ZhQSqySuvC7pdHix@jurong> (Andreas Enge's message of "Mon, 8 Apr 2024 17:52:11 +0200")

Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr> writes:
> I have a virtual machine that essentially runs an nginx instance and had
> 1GB of memory. This was not enough to do a "guix pull". I asked the people
> who provide the machine to me to ramp up to 2GB, but this was still not
> enough. Now I dare not ask for more, as I already felt ridiculous enough
> asking for 2GB for what essentially amounts to "apt-get update".
> This is not exactly good advertisement for our system...
>
> Andreas

If other processeses do indeed consume much of the 2GB, you could make
Guix pull an older commit for which substitutes are already available:

info "(guix)Channels with Substitutes"

Actually maybe 1GB is already enough then.

Regards,
Florian


  parent reply	other threads:[~2024-04-09  9:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-03-16  1:03 Guix as a non-optional dependency in another project, and Guix resources requirements Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli
2024-03-20 12:15 ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2024-03-21 16:26   ` Adrien 'neox' Bourmault
2024-03-21 16:35     ` Adrien 'neox' Bourmault
2024-03-22  0:16       ` Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli
2024-04-08 15:52         ` Andreas Enge
2024-04-08 20:32           ` Felix Lechner via
2024-04-11 15:36             ` Andreas Enge
2024-04-11 17:32               ` Felix Lechner via
2024-04-09  9:33           ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz) [this message]
2024-04-09 12:23             ` Felix Lechner via
2024-03-22  0:52   ` Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli
2024-03-22  9:17     ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2024-03-25  0:26       ` Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli
2024-03-25 17:34         ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2024-03-27  1:28           ` Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli
2024-03-27 11:22             ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2024-04-01 22:02               ` Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli
2024-05-06 12:34 ` Simon Tournier

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